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The Cold War Museum is a history museum in Warrenton, Virginia, focused on Cold War history. Founded in 1996 by Francis Gary Powers Jr., son of pilot Francis Gary Powers, and John C. Welch to preserve Cold War history and honor Cold War veterans, the Cold War Museum signed a lease on December 1, 2009, with the Vint Hill Economic Development Authority for the use of a two-story building and secure storage facility at Vint Hill Farms Station, Virginia, in Fauquier County, from Washington Dulles International Airport. Vint Hill Farms is a 695-acre former United States Army communications base.〔"(The Cold War Museum to locate at Vint Hill )," Cold War Museum.〕 The museum opened on November 11, 2011.〔(Cold War Museum Physical Location - Vint Hill Farm Station )〕〔Andrew DeMillo, "Atop Old Missile Hold, Cold War Site May Rise; Son of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers Envisions a Museum at Lorton." ''The Washington Post'' March 2, 2002.〕 The Cold War Museum is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization. As a result, it has pledges of support for loans of artifacts from the Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of American History, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Postal Museum. The Museum is also working with the privately owned International Spy Museum in Washington, Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum in Ottawa, and the Atombunker Harnekop near Berlin to temporarily display some of its artifacts. The Cold War Museum has a chapter in the American Midwest based in Waukesha, Wisconsin〔(Midwest Chapter )〕 and a chapter in Berlin.〔(Berlin Chapter )〕 ==Collection and holdings== The museum has over $3 million worth of international Cold War artifacts in its collection. Museum holdings include items from the 1948-1949 Berlin Airlift, 1960 U-2 incident (including the helmet used by Francis Gary Powers and the suitcase carried by Powers across Glienicke Bridge when he was exchanged for Rudolf Abel), a display on the Cuban Missile Crisis that includes a Soviet SA-2 missile and four America Nike missiles, and material from the USS ''Liberty'' incident, USS ''Pueblo'' incident, Corona spy satellites, and Space Race. The museum also has the largest collection of civil defense items in America, mainly acquired from the former Civil Defense headquarters in Washington; a yellow East German Trabant automobile; and Soviet and East German flags and banners.〔(Cold War Museum Collection ), Cold War Museum.〕 The museum also has acquired the mailbox used by Aldrich Ames to contact his Soviet handlers.〔"(Museum Updates )." ''Cold War Times'' (Vol. 2, Issue 3), May 2002.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Cold War Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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